A woman from Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district disguised herself as a man for 30 years to raise her daughter singlehandedly. To raise her only daughter without remarrying, Pechiyammal decided to disguise herself as a man and became Muthu. Over the past three decades, Muthu has worked in many places like hotels, tea shops in Chennai and Thoothukudi. After days, Muthu …
There was a joke doing rounds of Tamil Nadu on social media last week: “There will be a second wave of covid-19 from 13 January.” It was the day Master, starring Tamil superstar Vijay, hit the screens. With fans like Muthu, a Vijay movie has come to be known as an “event film”. But Vijay said, if my movie doesn’t …
